Don’t type “pressure cookers” into your browser

"If you want to find out the cheapest pressure cooker to buy, don’t under any circumstances search on the internet. Michele Catalano did that while her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Apparently the problem was not caused by Prism.

The Suffolk County Police Department released a statement saying that Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently fired employee. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”"